Every elephant has about 1,000 whiskers on its trunk. They play a crucial role for the animals, which have thick skin and ...

Read Don Huffines' Republican candidate questionnaire for the Texas Comptroller race.

In the valley, everything echoes. When a truck hits a pothole on Business Route 6, a car engine backfires on Wildcat Road or a neighbor as far as five streets away starts a snowblower or lawnmower, ...

Is intelligent alien life really out there? With powerful telescopes identifying more potentially habitable planets each year ...

The Giza Pyramids are among the best documented construction projects of the ancient world, yet a stubborn slice of popular culture still credits them to visitors from another planet. I want to ...

Baker’s yeast isn’t just useful in the kitchen — it may also be built for space. Researchers found that yeast cells can ...

ICE and Border Patrol close sophisticated La Nueva Empresa cartel tunnel under Rio Grande connecting Juárez to El Paso.

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Hell’s Half Acre, an otherworldly alien landscape in a remote section of central Wyoming is reopening in May. The area was ...

Life may have started in sticky, rock-hugging gels rather than inside cells. Researchers suggest these primitive, biofilm-like materials could trap and concentrate molecules, giving early chemistry a ...

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